The Political Weblog Project is a collaborative effort designed to encourage MPs, Councillors and other elected officials to communicate more effectively online via the intelligent use of weblogs. Elected officials who wish to take part in this scheme must follow these simple rules that exist primarily for your own benefit:Rule #1 - You must own (or be ready to purchase) your own domain name.
Rule #2 - You must use the technology to engage in two-way commmunication
Rule #3 - You must fund/source the weblog with your own money or resources.
Those who pledge to follow these rules will be provided with all the necessary assets and expertise at an extremely competitive rate.
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If you click on any of the 'Blogs' categories below, you will find that these entries have been individually backdated to correspond with the launch date of the blog that entry references (in order to provide a categorised and sequential history of these blogs).
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Blogs: All (31) Blogs: Campaign (2) Blogs: Councillors (Labour) (1) Blogs: House of Lords (1) Blogs: MPs (Conservative) (1) Blogs: MPs (Labour) (5) Blogs: MPs (Liberal Democrat) (2) Blogs: Proxies (20) Designers and Providers (4) Education and Seminars (2) Fighting Ignorance (6) General (1) News (2)« Pricing I | Main | Black Dog lacks clue » August 26, 2005 ContractsI've been thinking about the need for a contract, given that we are providing these weblogs at a certain price with the provision that they are used to engage in two-way communication. It's my opinion that we don't need one. Link spectrums are living, breathing things and they will quickly dissipate if engagement stops. In such a case the MP concerned will have received a cheap website at the cost of their (online) reputation. Let me know if you disagree. Posted by timireland on August 26, 2005 12:28 PM in the category Designers and Providers CommentsI'd be against contracts for an exercise such as this. Or at least anything beyond agreeing to pay the fees... I fully expect that our methods and strategies will change as the campaign progresses, and any contract that wasn't too restrictive would be so loose as to be almost worthless. However, some form of principles and statement of understanding might be useful to all parties. Posted by: balders at August 26, 2005 8:52 PM So an expansion on Rules 1-2-3, then? Posted by: Manic at August 26, 2005 11:30 PM Pretty much so, yes. Posted by: balders at August 27, 2005 8:31 AM Post a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |